The Dreaded Red Delicious Apple

In my art class, there is a fake Red Delicious Apple. Sketching it gives me fits. It’s a dark object, so there are only four tones (6-10) that can be used, other than the tiny spot where the light hits it.

The sketch of the red delicious apple

Mostly looks like the apple

My bright idea was to buy one, one with as many contours as possible, and sketch it at home.

The red delicious apple to sketch

The dreaded sketch object

For most of the time, in my sketch it looked like a bell pepper. I worked on it until I didn’t know what else to correct. That’s always my stopping point.

Fiction Friday: Shattered Dreams

The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo prompt.

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Friday Fictioneer photo prompt.  Copyright Claire Fuller

Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Claire Fuller

A week after his father died, Lou locked the shop for the last time. When they buried his father, they buried Lou’s plans to join his father’s business after graduation.

Ten years later, on the anniversary of his father’s death, Lou stood in front of the shop, remembering his shattered dreams. He said goodbye to the life he had planned as a teenager. He looked at his watch, a Gucci limited edition, as his limo pulled up behind him. Life, he learned, rarely offered only one possibility. Lou had kept dreaming. His smile was bittersweet as he entered the limo.
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Photography 101: Swarm

These are Yellow-headed Blackbirds (most of them). It took me forever to find that out, and actually I didn’t, hubby did. I spent hours and hours on the Internet, looking up “orange and black” birds. Finally, I decided they were Orioles, but I couldn’t find a photo of one with coloring just like the birds in our front yard. Hubby — somehow — discovered they were YELLOW-headed blackbirds. Well, they look orange to me.

A lot of yellow-headed blackbirds eating the birdseed on the ground

Coming in for a landing

Another photo of the yellow-headed blackbirds eating seed on the ground

Yes, they do look orange

Photography 101: Swarm